Cevat Yerli, co-founder of Crytek, spoke at the GDC Europe conference yesterday and dropped the ominous bomb that “there may not be a next-gen console), and points the finger of blame squarely at Nintendo.
Despite the criticisms the company has received over the years, Yerli said that Crytek will still focus on making its engines highly scalable–meaning that games of today will look even better two or three years from now while allowing older PCs to run the game admirably as well. He said this is partly due to the uncertainty of when next-gen consoles will be available. Although Crytek estimates 2012 or 2013, he also said that there’s a big debate on whether there will be a next generation at all thanks to the “relatively horsepower-light” Nintendo Wii.
Even after having said that, he went on to praise the power of GPU computing and recommended OpenCL.
